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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
John 3:15
‘Whosoever believeth’
Read John 1:1-14
Without question, the most profound, most mysterious and most incomprehensible thing in all the world is the gospel of Christ. Who can explain how the eternal Son of God could come to this earth in human flesh, live in perfect righteousness as our Representative before God, have our sins imputed to him, suffer and die as our Substitute in full satisfaction of infinite justice, rise from the dead in accomplishment of our justification and reign in glory as the God-man Mediator to save his people? The fact of the gospel is incomprehensibly astonishing!
Yet the message of the gospel is plain, clear and simple. It is just this: ‘Believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.’ Do you ask, ‘How can I be saved from my sin?’ ‘How can I be made righteous before God?’ ‘How can a sinner like me be justified in the sight of God?’ There is no need for your perplexity. Paul said, ‘The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.’ If you will acknowledge Christ’s lordship and dominion over you, believing on him alone for the pardon of your sin and all your righteousness before God, you will be saved.
Nothing in all the world is more plain and clear than that. You do not need to figure out a way of salvation. Christ has done it all. You must simply trust him. As surely as it is true that ‘The soul that sinneth it shall die’, just that surely it is true that ‘Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’ Not until the throne of God is overturned and the truth of God becomes a lie will it be possible for a sinner truly to believe on Christ without being saved.
The question is simply this: ‘Dost thou believe on the Son of God?’ If you do, you are a saved man or woman. Your sins are pardoned and you are made perfectly righteous in Christ.
